Ruby-GitHub: Simple Access to the GitHub API

Posted by Michael Bleigh on April 1, 2008

While the GitHub folks have produced their own github-gem that provides some useful command-line tools for GitHub users, the library they have written isn’t your traditional API wrapper since it’s focused around using GitHub rather than getting information from GitHub.

I’ve thrown together a small library called ruby-github that provides that kind of functionality. It’s extremely simple and works with all of the currently available API but that only comes down to three read-only calls at this point. Use like so: